February 2019

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

Good product design involves a great deal of work and requires plenty of experience and skills. The Design Intent experiences an evolutionary development and needs sufficient time to mature. This not necessarily linear process requires extensive analysis and ultimately also good feeling to make the right decisions at the right time.

WertelOberfell will be working on some experimental designs on site at KGM, and provide insights into their work processes. The focus will be on iterative artwork using 3D printers and CAD programs. In this way, visitors can observe how a design evolves from the first idea – the Design Intent – into its final version.

Opening:

November 28, 4:30pm
Talk and guided tour with the designers, participation with valid museum ticket for free.

On February 8, the German Design Award 2019 will be presented at the Ambiente trade fair. The invited guests can look forward to an atmospheric event at which the international design scene meets and exchanges ideas.

In the winning exhibitions "Excellent Product Design" and "Excellent Communications Design"[...b], attendees and the press can experience the award-winning projects on the exhibition grounds.

The Dutch designer Richard van der Laken gives an insight into the activities of the international design platform "What Design Can Do". In an open round, concrete examples will be used to discuss which paths are open to designers today: How can design be socially effective? What does it mean to apply design and creativity to the complex and problematic consequences of a globalised economy? How can socially committed design communities network internationally? What formats does "What Design Can Do" offer and how can graduates of Berlin's design schools get involved?

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as..: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The first panel discussion will take place in Dieburg/Frankfurt. The topic:

»Bauhaus 4.0 meets design theory: In the conflicting field between design theory, teaching and practice - on changing the role of design in times of digitalisation«

For the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Vitra Design Museum is dedicating an exhibition to the entrepreneur and designer Anton Lorenz for the first time. Lorenz is regarded as a key figure in the development of modern tubular steel furniture. Like hardly any other material, tubular steel embodied the ideals of the Bauhaus avant-garde, such as the quest for a "machine aesthetic" and the search for radically new constructions, as expressed in the famous cantilever chair. The designer owes his importance not only to his furniture designs, but also to his success with patents and company foundations. The exhibition in the show depot includes furniture by legendary designers such as Marcel Breuer, Mart Stam and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as objects and documents from the estate of Anton Lorenz, who belongs to the collection of the Vitra Design Museum.

How do workshops succeed and how does the format support creative collaboration? On 21 February, Esther Schaefer (communication designer and trained process moderator) will share knowledge and experience from her four-year practical experience as a workshop moderator, giving insights into topics such as work culture, role as a moderator or briefing. Subsequently, collegial exchange between the Meetup participants will deepen further aspects of how workshops can advance (design) projects.

About the ExpertEsther Schaefer studied communication design and is a trained process moderator (artop, Berlin). For four years she has been offering companies and organisations workshop moderation of teams and working groups for the development of new solutions. Her focus is on creativity (creativity techniques and design thinking) and collaboration. After graduating in 1998, she worked as a designer, lecturer and project manager, also for the International Design Centre Berlin. She works as a freelance moderator and trainer for Stiftung Warentest, Carlsen Verlag and Deutscher Zukunftspreis.

entry
Guests: 5 Euro
Admission is free for IDZ members. The number of participants is limited, so please register.

IDZ member Emma Wood is a weaver, designer and teacher based in Berlin. She has an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art and founded her design studio in 2012. Emma works together with museums and artists and finds exciting and innovative ways to introduce people to the versatile and playful medium of weaving.

During this workshop you will have the opportunity to design and weave your own fabric patterns on an 8-wave loom and to understand the principles of shaft weaving. You will be able to choose from a wide range of yarns to play with and experiment with.

Emma introduces you to the basic movements of weaving, helps you understand how the different structures work and explains how different warp threads can affect your designs.

March 2019

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

Berlin Showroom will deepen the successful DACH cooperation jointly initiated with AFA (Austria) and Mode Suisse (Switzerland) in Autumn 2017. 26 up-and-coming as well as established designers of the german-speaking region will unite and showcase their latest collections at DACH Showroom from 1st to 5th of March in the heart of Paris, Marais.

On March 4 & 5, the Fraunhofer Institute will offer a training program that deals with the promotion of the circular economy by emphasizing design and life cycle thinking.

The question of how products and services can be designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible is becoming increasingly urgent. The two-day interactive workshop "Ökodesign Lernfabrik" is based, among other things, on design thinking methods. Participants* apply user-centric interdisciplinary approaches and sustainability tools to minimize the ecological footprint while maximizing the benefits of closed-loop business models.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day started the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The second panel discussion will take place in Garching/München. The topic: Bauhaus 4.0 meets Product Design & Industrial Design: For the design of interfaces - between products, media and people

Germany's largest design event is just around the corner - Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW). More than 120 programme partners attract thousands of creative people to the Bavarian capital, including User Interface Design GmbH. In 2019, UID will once again be a programme partner of the MCBW and has put together a varied and exciting programme under the banner of "Future Technologies": Three events around the topic "Future Technologies" will take place from 13 to 14 March.

times
13 –14 March | Open Lab | 4pm – 9pm: Here you can explore the exhibition on your own or take part in a guided tour every half hour between 4:30pm and 8:30pm

Since September 2018, the INKA research group at the HTW Berlin has been offering artists, performers and employees of small companies in the cultural and creative industries the opportunity to further their education in the fields of augmented reality and digital media production as part of a six-monthly School for ARtists.

At the AURORA School for ARtists you can choose between five further education courses within eight weeks.

Course 1

Examples, conception and design of augmented reality applications in the creative field

The first training course offers a first introduction to the complex field of Augmented Reality (AR). It focuses on the transfer of basic knowledge and meaningful examples: The cultural-historical illumination of the still young technology is followed by a discussion of current AR applications in the context of artistic expression. The programme also includes an overview of the hardware and software required and clarification of important terms from AR programming.
Subsequently, the focus will be on the analogue conception and design of AR applications in the creative field.

This training is a basic course that does not require any previous knowledge.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The third panel discussion will take place in Bremen. The topic:

»Bauhaus 4.0 meets service & interaction design: interaction with all senses – how experience will be designed in the future«

With the exhibition "Balkrishna Doshi. Architecture for people", the Vitra Design Museum presents the first retrospective of the complete works of Balkrishna Doshi (*1927 in Pune, India) outside Asia. The famous architect and urban planner, who was the first Indian to receive the renowned Pritzker Prize in 2018, is one of the few pioneers of modern architecture on the subcontinent.
The exhibition illustrates Doshi's decisive influence on modern Indian architecture and on generations of younger architects.

Scholz & Volkmer will be presenting current trends on the subject of "Visualising Information", thus providing insights into areas such as design, architecture, performance, film, art, technology, research and communication. In addition to the focus on "data visualization" as a design discipline, the focus is increasingly on how social truths can assert themselves through visualization in the flood of information.

As part of the project "Berlin Poland | Fashion Business & Manufacture 2019-2020", the International Design Centre Berlin invites you to a kickoff workshop.

In our workshops we would like to supply Berlin fashion companies with practical knowledge and tools as well as support them in establishing and maintaining production partnerships. In addition, new cross-border business ideas and cooperations will be developed, which will then be continued independently.

The opening workshop serves to align and define the goals, which will be worked out in four follow-up workshops with Berlin labels and Polish textile producers.

The participation is free of charge, the number of participants is limited.